Recent News

ADA – New East Central University President Katricia G. Pierson poses with retiring ECU President John R. Hargrave as Pierson officially took over the university’s presidency in a community-wide reception on Tuesday, Feb. 28. “I’ve got optimism because we have the best and brightest faculty in the state of Oklahoma and we have a staff that gives tirelessly, tirelessly to make this place wonderful for one another and our students,” said Pierson. Hargrave is pleased with Pierson being his successor. “I’m very excited to see her carry on the campus traditions and programs at ECU.

East Central University’s Harland C. Stonecipher School of Business is conducting its 2017 Scholarships and Awards Banquet on Thursday, April 20, at 6 p.m. in ECU Foundation Hall of the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.

Featuring the music of The Beatles, the East Central University Jazz Ensemble will present its annual Punch and Pie Jazz Concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 5, in the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. The program includes: Blackbird, Hey Jude, Lucy in the Sky, Can’t Buy Me Love, All My Loving, Hard Day’s Night, Here, There and Everywhere and Norwegian Wood. The ECU Jazz Ensemble is under the direction of Dr. Allen Correll.

In an effort to inspire business leaders of tomorrow, East Central University will conduct its annual Oklahoma Business Week, June 4-8.

The week-long, award-winning summer camp is for high school students, grades 9-12, to gain a first-hand experience in the world of business. The event includes business simulations, competitions, prizes and college scholarships.

ECU SCREENS concludes its Seventh Annual Foreign Film Festival with Where Do We Go Now? on Friday, Feb. 24 at 4 p.m. in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of East Central University's Bill S. Cole University Center.

Winner of the audience award at the Toronto Film Festival, Where Do We Go Now? will be introduced by Dr. Terrie Becerra, assistant professor in East Central University’s Department of Political Science, Legal Studies and Sociology.

The East Central University Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble will conduct its Midwinter Concert on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 3 p.m. in the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

The concert is free and open to the public.

The Symphonic Band’s program will include: Celebration by Randell Standridge; English Folk Song Suite, movement 3, by Ralph Vaughn Williams; Fortress by Frank Ticheli and Pas Redouble by Camille Saint-Saens, transcribed by Arthur Franckenpohl.

When music and theatre come together at East Central University or in the Ada community, chances are Vickie Jo Reifsnider has been in the middle of it for nearly the past 20 years.

For her years of service to Ada and ECU, Reifsnider was recently selected as “The 2016 Outstanding Adan in the Arts” by the Ada Arts Council. Reifsnider accepted the award during the “Ada Arts Showcase” at the Ada Arts and Heritage Center on Jan. 22.

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